Not enough young people are graduating from high school, receiving good postsecondary education or training, and then developing valuable skills through on-the-job experience.
Gov. Roy Cooper is further easing restrictions on state residents and businesses that began one year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooper’s latest executive order takes effect 5 p.m. Friday, March 26, and expires April 30. The state’s general mask mandate remains in effect. Cooper says 31% of North Carolinians older than 18 have...
Ray Nothstine, Carolina Journal opinion editor, discusses Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s new FACTS task force on bias and indoctrination in N.C. public schools. Learn more here: “Mark Robinson understands a simple truth: Classroom indoctrination is real.”
On a road map, you’ll find Tri-County Community College in the far western corner of North Carolina. If you look at a topographic map, the college sits within a ring of mountains formed by the Blue Ridge, forming a natural valley community made up of North Carolina’s Cherokee County and several border counties in north...
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s FACTS task force. It’s designed to compile a record of ideological bias and indoctrination in public schools. Stoops offered these comments during the March 22, 2021, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”
Two Moore County elected officials have launched a grassroots movement against the ongoing COVID-related executive orders in North Carolina — including the mask mandate. Lydia Boesch and Mitch Lancaster call their organization Freedom Matters NC, with the goal to encourage people to push back against Gov. Roy Cooper’s orders and “reclaim the freedoms that have...
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, questions spending plans for K-12 money tied to coronavirus relief. Learn more here: “Coronavirus funding for K-12 schools — and you thought it was for the students.”
Interest in homeschooling has surged in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Republican lawmakers in the state Senate want to give these families tax relief to help meet expenses. Senate Bill 297 would give homeschool families a $1,000 credit off state income taxes for each dependent child per year. The tax credit would be...
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s new task force targeting bias and indoctrination in N.C. schools. Learn more here: “Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson fights for fairness and accountability in public school classrooms.”
More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought North Carolina to a screeching halt, Gov. Roy Cooper shows no sign of relinquishing the sweeping and open-ended emergency powers he has claimed under state law. The General Assembly is now trying once again to clarify exactly what a governor should have the power to do...
Smarter than many Republican politicians, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson understands his political base. Many parents across North Carolina care about ideological indoctrination in schools and know that it exists in at least some classrooms. Over in Loudoun County, Virginia, a recent bombshell by the Daily Wire reveals how bad it has become for those who...
